Attack of the Dean-Leaners

Now up at Reason. There’s also an insightful addendum from Jesse Walker, and a boatload of comments at Hit and Run. I should add two comments here as well. First, I suppose the argument there is directed, not necessarily at self-identified hardcore libertarians (or Libertarians) but at the wider set of folks with broadly libertarian, small-government views, who probably comprise about 15 percent of the electorate, all told. Second, this is pretty tentative: I want to see what happens once we get into the general election phase.